Garment button



Nov.3 1925.

- 1,560,000 M. H. SIEGEL GARMENT BUTTON Filed Aug. 15. 1924 'r s' R $2221 BY I ' An10kNEY l Patented Nov. 3, 1925.

v 1,560,060 PATENT OFFICE.

MORRIS H. SIEGEL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A-SSIGNOER, TO BEATRICE SANVILLE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GARMENT BUTTON.

Application filed August 15, 1924. Serial No. 732,194.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MORRIS H. SIEGEL, a citizen of the United States; and a resident of New York city, in the county and State useful Improvements in a Garment Button, of which the following is a specification.

Among the principal objects which the present invention has in View are: To prevent the detachment of a button from the article of wear with which it is associated in service; to provide a button which may be stationarily secured to the garment with which it is associated in service; and to simplify and cheapen the construction of the invention. 7

Drawings.

ing taken as on the line 1- 1 in Figure 1.

Description.

The invention is shown as adapted for use in conjunction with collar buttons such as are provided with the head 9, shank 10, and base 11. In shape and design, the button, in so far as the parts enumerated are concerned, is the same as the usual or customary button. In adapting the button to the needs of the present invention, however, the head 9 is slotted to receive the U-shaped end of a spreading spring retainer 12. The retainer 12 fits over the stem 10 in a manner best shown in Figure 2 of the drawings. It is thereafter held by the head 9 when the same is pressed over the end of the stem 10 in the manufacture of the button.

The retainer 12 has clamping feet 13. When not restrained by the ring girdle 14, the feet 13 are held in position substantially as shown in Figure 1 of the drawings, that is, outspread and lifted from the base 11.

It will be noted by reference to Figure of New York, have invented certain new and members of the retainer 12.

aof the "drawing that the shank 10 is not increased in thickness when viewed from the end of the arms 13, so that the buttonhole 15 in the fabric 16 may slip over the ball or head 9, ring 1%, and the outspread When the fabric 16 has been seated on the base 11, the feet '13 are raised above the level of the fabric. In this position the button is turned to a position perpendicular to the longest dimension of the buttonhole, or substantially as shown in Figure 3 of the drawings' The feet 18 now overlay the fabric 16. If the ring lt be now depressed or moved toward the feet 13, the spreading members are contracted upon the stem 10 as shown in Figure 2 of the drawings, with the result that the feet 13 are depressed upon the fabric 16 to lock the same firmly on the base 11. This condition is shown best in Figure 2 of the drawings.

To hold the retainer 12 in the service position shown in Figure 2 of the drawings, is the function of the bumps 17. The bumps 17 are constructed so that the ring 1 1 can pass thereover to rest in active service therebelow.

It is obvious that when the ring 14 is in the position shown in Figure 2 of the drawings, the bumps 17 hold the ring in service,

requiring thereafter some manual efiort to lift the ring into the position shown in Figure 1 of the drawings.

It is obvious that when the retainer 12 is in the position shown in Figures 2 and 3 of the drawings, the button cannot become separated from the garment or fabric 16. By thus securing the button, many of the disagreeable incidents such as having the button fall from the garment due to an enlargement of the buttonhole, is avoided.

While I have herein described the invention as applied to a collar button, it is obvious that it may be applied to other buttons or devices for uniting in service two portions of a garment where it is desired to remove one portion from the fastening device without releasing the engagement of the fastening device with the other section of the garment. I

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comprising a base, a head, connecting shank,

and a retainer having members spaced apart from said 'b'ase; and means for closing said members toward said base upon an intervening fabric adapted to clamp the fabric between said members and said base, said means embodying a ring siida-bly mounted on said shank for contracting the ends of said members upon said shank.

2. A garment button as characterized comprising a base, a head, connecting shank, and a retainer having members spaced apart from said base; means for closing said members toward said base H1011 an inteivcnin' fabric adapted to clamp the fabric between said members andsaid base, said means embodying a ring slidably mounted on said shank for contracting the ends of said members upon said shank; and means for holding the said ring in position to contract said members.

A garment button as characterized comprising a base, a head, connecting shank, and a retainer'having -1nembers spaced apart from said base; means for closing said members toward said base upon an intervening fabric adapted to clamp the fabric between said members and said base, said means embodying a ring slidably mounted on said shank for contracting .theends of said members upon said Si'1L11i*;'3-11ti means for holding the said ring in positionto contract said rnen'ibers, said means embodying protuben ances on said inembers in the path of said ring to be over-ridden by said rin MORRIS H. SIEGEL. 

